The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2020

Christina Wodtke’s path to her current standing as an established authority on the attributes of high-performing teams and the use of OKRs has been a roundabout one. Over the course of her long tech career she has worked at Yahoo! She’s also due to deliver a workshop on how to design product teams with intention at MTP Engage Hamburg.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A cross-functional?—?be

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. If so, what is the value of the solution you’re developing? After all, you’re translators, not tech wizzes.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last Product fit will probably be catastrophic.  This

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. All the on-premise servers were overloaded due to a lack of understanding from technologists on what a transaction meant. The Results.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. When tackling a technical design for a system, make sure you always understand the data models first.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team.

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Product Management Unpacked

JUNE 23, 2020

A look into cloud-based technology product management and what it takes to build products that customers value. If something bad happens locally, like an office losing power, having a copy of important data somewhere else isn’t enough. Grone highlights how he’s working to help make jobs easier for different teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 6, 2020

Today, there's a rather substantial talent gap in the tech industry. As the 21st century continues to roll on, an increased need for tech and computing professionals will continue to grow, widening the tech talent gap even further. So this begs the question: is Lambda School worth the money, in the end?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

To unburden their teams, companies like Facebook, Google, and others have turned to product operations, whose job is to help product teams achieve better outcomes. At its core, product operations enables product teams to achieve better outcomes. Create frameworks for aligning company, org, team, and individual goals.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales  Sales teams get quota relief from closing individual deals, not market segments.  Integration  Commitments from Product/Development are assumed to be on schedule.  Custom

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To I furrow my brow incredulously.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

There’s a lot of variation in how companies document product requirements. Some are moving away from detailed, written product requirements documents (PRDs), while others are using shorter write-ups, user stories, or jobs-to-be-done formats. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Written Methods.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

Maybe it is because in the early stages of my career, I was a student of Waterfall and the idea of purposely avoiding the documentation stage just seemed irresponsible and actually, impossible to accept. Simply stated, there is no substitute for well-written and researched documentation. And again, my confusion grew.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

I spend a lot of time sifting through documents, positioning and stories – trying to figure out who we’re talking about. I see much broader wins: Our technical teams often make the “I am the user” mistake: we unconsciously assume that the people at the other end of our software are just like us. Bonus points for clarity.

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Userpilot

MARCH 23, 2023

And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? The key difference is that customer churn measures the number of customers a business lost, whereas revenue churn measures the revenue lost due to customer churn. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said   What BigCorp demands, BigCorp gets.  Hitting

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Often people stumble into the Product Management career without any Technology background. I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the the only ‘Technical’ person I spoke to was my content Producer. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. Get to know your Tech Lead well.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

As a product team grows from one or two individual contributors to a larger, more diverse team, it takes some work to ensure everyone is set up for success. Different personalities, styles, and expectations can create inconsistent experiences for others when dealing with the product team. Empowered and autonomous.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The biggest reason people stick with the timeline roadmap is due to other stakeholders, like their boss or customers. A timeline roadmap simply doesn’t leave room for discovery and iteration, and at the end of the day, makes the product person look bad when delivery fails or the wrong product is built. But, we don’t live in that world.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

But one thing technology leaders need to ask themselves is, “what are the threats we face?” The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team? Key considerations to build product capability within an organisational include: What is the team topology?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

When it comes to platform strategy, Ceci’s experience is unparalleled, having worked at Box as part of their founding platform team before later joining Slack in 2015 to found the platform marketing team there. If there’s customer adoption , developers generally will come. Measuring platform success is complicated.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 25, 2023

Agile antipatterns or scrum antipatterns are (poor) practices that are utilized to enhance a process. It is a disguised form of Agile Development that masquerades as a solution but creates negative outcomes that you may discover later. Agile antipatterns include scrum teams conducting daily stand-ups to comprehend the team’s progress.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. I used to manage large development teams — all smart and independent people — but I hadn’t managed product managers before. And how can you let someone from your team lead parts of the strategy which you own yourself?

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